The Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, is defecting from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a presidential aide has said. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, posted a message on Facebook, Saturday night, saying that Mr Akpabio will be received into APC on Thursday by […]
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The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, on Saturday made a comparison between President Muhammadu Buhari and other past Nigerian leaders and delivered a verdict: Buhari is a non-materialistic leader. “If you watch the life of President Buhari, he is not materialistically minded like the other people”, Akiolu said. The Lagos monarch made this remark when the […]
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Senator representing Sokoto north, Aliyu Wamakko, says the governor of his state, Aminu Tambuwal, and others who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will regret the move. Before Tambuwal moved to the PDP, Senate President Bukola Saraki, several lawmakers and two governors had already defected from the ruling party. Wamakko commented on the defections […]
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Top lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, has commented on the defections going on in Nigeria. He said the defection of some lawmakers from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is illegal. Fifty-three members of the national assembly recently dumped the ruling party and moved to the opposition, with most […]
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The Youth Initiative for Advocacy, Growth and Advancement (YIAGA-Africa), on Friday in Abuja said it would deploy 561 observers ahead of the Osun governorship election to monitor pre-election environment and the election. A statement by Mr Moshood Isah, the Media officer, YIAGA Africa, said the group’s “WatchingTheVote (WTV) project’’ was making adequate arrangement to monitor […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday formally welcomed Senate President Bukola Saraki, Governor of Sokoto Aminu Tambuwal, Samuel Ortom of Benue, former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to South Africa, Ahmed Ibeto and Sen. Dino Melaye as they attended the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja. All the […]
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The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, says a full blown military government is better than the current administration. Speaking on Wednesday at a dinner to welcome those who left the All Progressives Congress (APC), Secondus alleged that the ruling party has foisted on the country “a kind of military democracy”. Senate […]
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A controversial member of the house of representatives from Kano state, Abdulmumin Jibrin, President Muhammadu Buhari has highest electoral value in Nigeria and that is the reason at least four governors in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) working with the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2019 election. The lawmaker said the governors have […]
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On Wednesday, Eighteen out of the 30 members of the Sokoto state house of assembly defected from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Salihu Maidaji, speaker of the assembly, announced this hour after news broke that Aminu Tambuwal, the governor, had returned to the PDP. Maidaji is among the 18 […]
Continue ReadingSenate President Bukola Saraki and Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara state, have defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Both men made their decision known via Twitter on Tuesday evening. “I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the […]
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